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Immigration


INS Seeks $124M to Banish Backlog of Cases

Sep. 4, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Immigration officials said Thursday they have made great gains in reducing a backlog of citizenship applications in its Los A...


Government


Plaintiffs' Bar Shelves Secrecy Ban

Sep. 4, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - In another setback for the plaintiffs' bar, a bill to curb secrecy agreements in the settlement of civil lawsuit...


Contracts


Echoing a sentiment that has come up in large class-action cases across the nation, a Los Angeles judge has refused to approv...


Juvenile


Foster Childs Death Under Scrutiny

Sep. 4, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

A long-running investigation into the Dec. 15 death of a 3-year-old Los Angeles County foster child at a home in Anaheim has ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Nemeses Fail in Lawsuit Over Politics

Sep. 4, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

A federal appellate court Thursday rejected a First Amendment claim by three lawyer-lawmakers who challenged lobbying by the ...


Criminal


SAN JOSE -- To Judge Robert P. Ahern, a lengthy jury trial is similar to a long unfolding mystery novel, full of unusual detai...


Public Interest


Retired Los Angeles lawyer, author and political activist Gerald H. Gottlieb will be buried in a New York City family plot Se...


Litigation


Lying just beneath the surface of a complex, multimillion-dollar insurance fraud lawsuit brought by Allstate Insurance Co. is...


Constitutional Law


Spurned Speech

Sep. 3, 1999
By Columnist

Spurned Speech State Constitutional Rights Lose to Private Property Interests By Janine C. Ogando In what can be considered a...


Criminal


Telemarketer is Convicted in O.C.

Sep. 3, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Telemarketer Is Convicted in O.C. SANTA ANA - The last of seven people charged with bilking half a million dollars from elder...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Riverdance

Sep. 3, 1999
By Columnist

^^Real Property^^ Riverdance Litigation Involving Levee Failure in 1986 Is Continuing The record ran to 52,000 pages of appel...


Judges and Judiciary


Post-Graduate Education

Sep. 3, 1999
By Columnist

^^Bench Press^^ Post-Graduate Education Diving into legal work can mean enrolling in the school of hard knocks Gregory C. O'B...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Weigel, who epitomized a fierce judicial independence that left him undeterred ...


Education


Public Law Schools Show Minority Drop

Sep. 3, 1999
By Jeanna Steele

SAN FRANCISCO - Minority enrollment at University of California law schools continues to decline following passage of the UC ...


Environmental


Nuclear Fission

Sep. 3, 1999
By Columnist

By Barbara Blinderman On Saturday, Aug. 21, the 740-seat Walk Festival Hall at Teton Village, Wyo., was filled to overcapacit...


Law Practice


L.A. Lawyer Heads International Group

Sep. 3, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

L.A. Lawyer Heads International Group Los Angeles attorney Malcolm S. McNeil has been elected president of the Association of...


Large Firms


L.A.s Fried Frank Lures Partner From N.Y.

Sep. 3, 1999
By E Freudenthal

SAN FRANCISCO - The Los Angeles office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has added securities litigation partner...


Environmental


Military Waste

Sep. 3, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - One of California's biggest polluters has been repeatedly cited for violations at locations it operates throu...


Construction


How Firm a Foundation?

Sep. 3, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LAGUNA NIGUEL - The well-manicured homes lining the Snipe Lane cul-de-sac in the hills of Laguna Niguel look like the ideal l...


WASHINGTON - Cut Roger Cossack, the Los Angeles lawyer-turned-host of CNN's "Burden of Proof" says, and he'll bleed blue and ...


Litigation


The California Supreme Court voted unanimously Wednesday to consider a challenge to the constitutionality of California's Son...


Government Contracts


A City's Plan on Minority Hiring Faces New Test

Sep. 3, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Setting the stage for a major civil rights ruling, the California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take its own ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Brown Is Admonished for Employee Ban

Sep. 3, 1999
By Michael Harris

The state Commission on Judicial Performance on Wednesday took the rare step of publicly admonishing Los Angeles Superior Cou...


Large Firms


MoFo Still Tops for Moms Who Work

Sep. 3, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

MoFo Still Tops for Moms Who Work SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster was the only law firm selected this year by Working...


WASHINGTON - Plaintiffs won 52 percent of nearly 16,000 civil cases decided at trial in 1996 in the nation's 75 largest count...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


SACRAMENTO - A severely pruned bill to ban mandatory arbitration clauses in many employment contracts has been shelved for th...


Real Estate/Development


MEETINGS -- SOUTH

Sep. 2, 1999
By Julie Nakashima

SEPT. 9 The San Diego IREM chapter presents "Plugging Into New Opportunities in the Millennium" at its monthly luncheon meeti...


Real Estate/Development


BROKER BEAT San Francisco

Sep. 2, 1999
By Jane Zastrow

At the rudder Terry Vani architecture experience gave him an idea. Develop a CAD-based floor planning and presentation system...


Real Estate/Development


On the Scene Sacramento/North BAy

Sep. 2, 1999
By John Mc Cloud

Granite Bay Solid deals Bob Kuhl, senior consultant with the Roseville office of TRI Commercial Real Estate Services Inc./Onc...


Real Estate/Development


PEOPLE -- NORTH

Sep. 2, 1999
By John Mc Cloud

Sacramento lawyers Trainor Robertson added Thomas Morton and Sherrie Duncan to its Real Estate Transaction Group as an associ...